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President Harry S. Truman was re-elected for a second term
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TomHaydenwrote the "Port Huron Statement" anti-communist students for a democratic society.
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Groups begin to form and protest the war in England and Australia.
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This group organized the first US protest against Vietnam War and "anti-Buddhist terrorism".
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A conference of students planned many marches and protest across the country in places like San Francisco and New York.
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Twelve yound men publicly burned their draft cards to prtoest the war.
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Many American people were angry over a retaliation attack that the US carried out. -
The student union for peace group organized the anti war protest that took place at the University of Kansas
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The largest protest against the war was planned on this day. There was said to be between fifteen thousand and twenty thousand.
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Hundreds of people carried black coffins maching towards the draft board. On the same day 40 men burned their draft cards as a protest
